Passing values to plsql dynamically

Question

Hai all,
10.2.0.5 on Sun Solaris 10
We have a table with around 719 single column values . I need to pass this values
to a procedure one by one and execute it.
{code}
select numid from namet1;
scott
tiger
the above values from the table need to be passed in to the below plsql replacing numid
exec temp_tgf.pol_indx('&numid','&numid');
{code}
Any     idea.
Kai

Answer 1

We have a table with around 719 single column values . I need to pass this values
to a procedure one by one and execute it.
Which begs the question: why?
Why would you call a procedure that many times using a value like that?
That suggests that you may be using that procedure to solve a problem that could be better, or more efficiently, solved in a different way.
Even if that is a proper need the solution is to use modular solutions. For your use case that would be to create an 'overloaded' version of that procedure that has a collection (e.g. a nested table) as a parameter and that uses code similar to what Frank posted to loop through the nested table to call the existing procedure for each value.
The overloaded version would also need to include proper exception handling. For example, what if your procedure raises an exception for one of the values? Do you want to continue trying to execute the function for the remaining values? Or you do you want to abandon the entire process?
What transaction handling needs to be implemented? Where will the COMMIT or ROLLBACK happen?
The overloaded procedure could take parameters that control the processing based on the above issues. It would either 'abort' or 'continue' if an exception occurred for one value. It could also either COMMIT or ROLLBACK based on a parameter value.
You could also create another 'overloaded' version of that procedure that would query an appropriate data source, create a collection of values and then call the first overloaded procedure.
By using a modular approach you get maximum flexibility and keep the functionality of each module well-defined.